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Looking forward to officially introducing Noah Scaeva to you all tomorrow. Managed to get her design and style settled to my satisfaction and I'm feeling motivated for Mixed May.

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Severia x Nero: Sharlayan AU (updated 4-30-24)

I don’t have anything for rarepair week today cause the prompt is opposites attract and Severia and Nero are not at all opposites. So here’s a bit about the Sharlayan AU I’ve been ruminating on since EW. 

The idea behind this AU is that Severia and Nero are both from Sharlayan and meet each other through their respective studies, fall in love, and go on to be a cute archeologist couple digging in Allagan ruins. 

It is partly inspired by one of my favorite book series of all time: the Amelia Peabody series of historical mystery novels about an archeologist couple digging and solving mysteries in late 19th and early 20th century Egypt. The main couple, Amelia and Emerson, are serious couple goals. They may be my favorite couple in all of literature. 

In 1535 Sharlayan researcher Zolin Zukalin found a young Auri child wandering lost and alone among the Dravanian Hinterlands. Failing to find the child's family, Zolin ultimately adopts the child and names her Severia. She grows up in the Sharlayan colony, educated along with the children of many prominent scholars, until Zolin eventually retires at an advanced age and returns to Old Sharlayan in the year 1545. Severia spends the next several years setting aside her education to care for her adopted father. When Zolin knows that his time is near he makes Severia promise that when he's gone she will enter the Studium and resume her education and carefully makes provision in his will to ensure it happens.

When Zolin has passed away, Severia finds that she has been bequeathed an annual allowance on the condition that she attend the Studium with the promise of Zolin's full estate being bestowed upon her at her graduation. Dutifully, she enrolls in the Studium at age 19. The following year, when she has finished her introductory courses and advanced to the next level, she has a random encounter in the Noumenon with a man named Nero Scaeva.

Nero Scaeva is the son of Garlean researchers who fled from Solus' regime in order to prevent their work being used for militant ends. Nero is only two years old when they take refuge in Sharlayan. His parents end up living and working in Labyrinthos where their skills are put to use maintaining the complex environmental systems. Though they set aside their magitek research to learn the science of Sharlayan, a precocious Nero at age 8 finds where their old research materials are stored and becomes captivated. As he grows, his interest in magitek combines with his interest in stories of Allag, which he devours obsessively.

Nero becomes the youngest Sharlayan scholar to have an invention patented and distributed for use among the population. Faced with the decision to either pursue a career as an engineer or a career as an archeologist, Nero chooses both and begins producing a new line of inventions specifically for making archeological excavation more safe and precise. When he meets Severia at the age of 30 he is working on his 3rd Archon thesis (His mark is on his back left shoulder.) while he teaches to support himself and continues to seek funding for his archeological endeavors.

Severia and Nero soon begin meeting frequently as Nero helps her with her studies. It does not take the two long to fall in love and begin to contemplate a life together after Severia has graduated. But both of them more than anything want to pursue an archeological career, which costs a lot of money. Fortunately, after her graduation, Severia receives the rest of her legacy from Zolkin Zukalin, and discovers that her father had far more wealth than she ever imagined.

Severia becomes a well to do woman and knows exactly what to do with her new riches. That year they are married in the Spring and a month later have packed their bags for the mainland and their first archeological expedition together.

#reblogging for MAJOR updates #pretty much reworked their backgrounds in this au entirely #as well as adjusting their timeline to account for their daughter #I will be posting about this AU a lot in May!

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You deserve good things and I want to be one of them. ~Ellen Hopkins

Ages ago @dreadwyrmz sent me this adorable vintage ad that reminded them of Severia and Nero and I couldn't agree more. I've been meaning to pose it and finally found the motivation. So thank you!

#evening reblog

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#me sitting here trying to brainstorm for Mixed May #and suddenly realizing I have decided practically nothing about my OC

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So I've been debating on trying to actually post the stuff I roleplay/write about Ellie on here, but I've been meaning to try and gauge the best way to do so.

Either way both are time consuming but I wanted to know what method of storytelling everyone else prefers doing, what are the benefits of one over the other, etc. (Also I apologize for the lengthy poll time, I really wish they'd add other day options beyond just one day vs a week :sigh: )

#I like both #but not usually mixed together #sometimes it's easier to express things in images and sometimes it's easier to express things in writing #and I like being able to both look at my blorbos and express their story in great detail

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You deserve good things and I want to be one of them. ~Ellen Hopkins

Ages ago @dreadwyrmz sent me this adorable vintage ad that reminded them of Severia and Nero and I couldn't agree more. I've been meaning to pose it and finally found the motivation. So thank you!

#Severia x Nero #Severia Zetsuen #Nero tol Scaeva #my gposes #ffxiv screenshots #Severia and Nero vintage portraits #au ra xaela

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Blooming Roses, 1901 by Anthonie Eleonore Christensen(called Anthonore) (Danish, 1849–1926)

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Ok apparently I can't copy and paste from google docs into scrivener without it being incredibly messed up??

Project for today while I'm still getting over this stupid cold: organize my writing into scrivener documents based on SevNero universes and properly labeled. Rather than having it all scattered across a hundred google docs many of which are unnamed and many others of which have entirely unhelpful names.

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Project for today while I'm still getting over this stupid cold: organize my writing into scrivener documents based on SevNero universes and properly labeled. Rather than having it all scattered across a hundred google docs many of which are unnamed and many others of which have entirely unhelpful names.

#hoping some proper organization will make it easier for me to take advantage of writing motivation when it strikes unexpectedly

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I was tagged for one of those character details posts... idk weeks ago it feels like. And I was like oh I already have a bunch of posts like that about Severia, maybe I'll do this one for Noloty. Then I got to the family part and I know she has a large family but I haven't picked out names for them and realized I should really do that and now the post has been sitting in my drafts waiting for me to name Noloty's parents and siblings finally.

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I am once again putting way too much time and effort into a gpose than the result will warrant. But I honestly don't know any other way to be.

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May Writing Challenge

This May I want to get back into writing. I’m not at all consistent. I’m at a point where I don’t feel like I can work on bigger things, because I can’t guarantee myself to keep working on it in a week from now. So I will take this month as a training month to get back into the habit of writing. I will do this by writing (or trying to write) 200 words every day. Topic is irrelevant. How great my writing is that day is irrelevant. Just 200 words written down. A habit taking 21 days to form was debunked, it does take a lot longer, but 31 days are a start I would say. These are already 140 words, so 200 words every day are hopefully manageable. You're more than welcome to join me if you like 😊

#giving it a go

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@lilbittymonster tagged this post with nero and I was compelled.

Ain’t it true, GARLOND?!

#so true he's got it all #can't believe I've never seen this before #Nero tol Scaeva

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please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

#so many times

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Okay this is not going to be a very official looking post because 1. I don't have the steam for it and 2. I think the timing with Dawntrail's release would probably not be great.

But I did a while back make a "WoL-y" (pronounced like the fish "walleye" to sort of rhyme with "July") monthly prompt list. Normally I'd attempt to make a nice little graphic for it, but after trying a couple of times and feeling dissatisfied I've woefully given up :'D (If anyone feels possessed of the desire to do so, by all means feel free!)

Alternatively if you want to just pocket these for later once the DT hype has cooled a bit, go for it! OR trim a couple out and make it a countdown to DT, I'm just setting them free. So without further ado:

A Warrior of Light Month of Prompts!~

Morning Routine

Adventure

Companions

Fond Memories

Patron Deity

Origins

Specialty

Laughter

Adventurer's Guild

Favored Weapon

Discovery

Secret

Echo

Beach Episode

In Another Life…

Best Friend

Dungeon

Holiday

Habits

Darkest Hour

Victory

Crafting & Gathering

Allied Tribe

Haunting

Beloved

Beloathed

Sanctuary

Family

Bad End

Perfect Day

Bedtime Rituals

#I like this #I might adapt this into a countdown to DT thing for myself